27 occurrences

'Mother's' in the Bible

Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

Verse ConceptsMarrying RelativesTaking A WifeFathers And Daughters

And it happened [that], when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, Jacob drew near and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother.

Verse ConceptsRollingPossessing Sheep

" 'The best of the firstfruits of your land you will bring to the house of Yahweh your God. " 'You will not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodMilkEcologyYoung AnimalAnimal MothersFirst fruits

The beginning of the firstfruits of your land you will bring [to] the house of Yahweh your God. You will not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodMilkEcologyYoung AnimalAnimal MothersFirst fruits

[As for] your sister's nakedness, [whether] your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, [whether] {born at home} or {born abroad}, you must not expose their nakedness.

Verse ConceptsSistersForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredSiblingsSame Sex MarriageFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters

You must not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister, because she [is] {your mother's close relative}.

Verse ConceptsForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness Uncovered

" 'As for a man who takes his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and he sees her nakedness and she herself sees his nakedness, it [is] a disgrace, and they shall be cut off {before} the eyes of {their people}; he has exposed his sister's nakedness--he must bear his guilt.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceIncurring GuiltSexual Sin, Nature OfSistersForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredDeath Penalty For Sexual SinMothers And Daughters

And you shall not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister, and you shall not expose your father's sister, because such a person has dishonored his close relative--they must bear their guilt.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness Uncovered

"You shall not eat any carcass; you may give it to the alien who [is] in your {towns}, and he may eat it, or you may sell [it] to a foreigner, for you [are] a holy people for Yahweh your God; you may not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFindingMilkRitual LawEcologyStrangersYoung AnimalAnimal MothersDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsLaws Restricting ForeignersForbidden Foodnatural Deathpork

And Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem, to the relatives of his mother, and he said to them and to the house of his mother's father,

Verse ConceptsPlotting

And his mother's relatives spoke all these words concerning him {to} all the lords of Shechem; and {they supported Abimelech}, for they said, "He is our relative."

Verse ConceptsPeople Following PeopleCitizens

But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, each [of you] return to her mother's house. May Yahweh {show kindness to you} [just] as you did with the dead and with me.

Verse ConceptsKindnessMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

Then {Saul became angry} at Jonathan and said to him, "[You] son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanTemperAnger, Sinful ExamplesAnger Of Man, UnrighteousAnger Of Man, CauseChoosing PeopleNamed People Angry With OthersShame Has Comerebellion

because it did not shut the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Verse ConceptsBirth ControlWomb

(for from my childhood he {grew up with} me like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her),

Verse ConceptsGuidance, From Godly PeopleAdoption

On you I was cast from [the] womb. From my mother's belly you [have been] my God.

Verse ConceptsBaby dedicationFrom The WombFrom BirthYou Are Our GodScoffers

Just as he came from his mother's womb naked, {he will depart} just as he came; he will take nothing with him for his toil.

Verse ConceptsNudityBabiesHow Death Is InevitableNaked In OriginNew Born

Just as you do not know how the path of the wind [goes], nor how the bones [of a fetus] form in a mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombUnborn FetusesBonesNot Knowing HowNot Knowing WheremomsTrusting God's PlanDirectionGrowingMotherhoodChange And GrowthMoralityHaving A BabybabystructureThe Complexity Of Nature

{How I wish that you were my little brother}, [who] nursed {upon my mother's breasts}! [If] {I met you outside}, I would kiss you, {and no one would despise me}!

Verse ConceptsSibling Lovebreasts

Thus says Yahweh: "Where [is] this divorce document of your mother's divorce, [with] which I dismissed her? or to whom of my creditors did I sell you? Look! you were sold because of your sin, and your mother was dismissed because of your transgressions.

Verse ConceptsCreditdivorce, in OTCertificate of divorceBuying and sellingImperfection, And God's PurposesMarriage, Between God And His PeopleMothers, As A SymbolBills Of DivorceMothers

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